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Registered
Charity No. 1060134 |
| CME Course |
Introductory course on Epidemiology
Stockholm, Drottningholm Palace
September 16-18, 2006
Stockholm, Sweden
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ERA-EDTA
European Council for Accreditation in CME in Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation (ECANDT of the ERA-EDTA accredited by the European Accreditation Council
for CME - EACCME).
| Chair-person: R. Coppo (Italy) |
| Secretary: A.L.M. De Francisco (Spain) |
| Members: J. Floege (Germany) |
| R. Vanholder (Belgium) |
| A. Wiecek (Poland) |
| C. Zoccali (Italy) |
| J. Cannata-Andia, ERA-EDTA President (Spain) |
| CME Courses Coordinators: |
| Basic Science and Clinical Nephrology: R. Coppo (Italy) and J. Floege (Germany). |
| Chronic Renal Failure, Hypertension and Clinical Epidemiology: C. Zoccali (Italy) and G. London (France). |
| Dialysis: R. Vanholder (Belgium) and S. Davies (UK). |
| Transplantation: C. Ponticelli (Italy), A. Torres (Spain) and K. Olgaard (Denmark). |
Local Coordinator: Bengt Lindholm and Peter Stenvinkel, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden.
ERA-EDTA
Coordinator: K. Jager E-mail: k.j.jager@amc.uva.nl
THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS HAS BEEN REACHED. UNFORTUNATELY WE CANNOT ACCEPT MORE REGISTRATIONS.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
| Saturday 16 September | |
| 14.30 | Course presentation (lecture) |
| 14.45 | Measuring disease occurrence (lecture) |
| 15.15 | Cohort and case control studies (lecture) |
| 16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.15 | Study design (hands on session) |
| 17.15 | Simple analysis of risk and prevalence data (lecture) |
| 17.45 | Session end |
| Sunday 17 September | |
| 9.00 | Bias and confounding in epidemiologic studies (lecture) |
| 9.45 | Confounding (hands on session) |
| 10.00 | Ways to address confounding: stratification and regression (lecture) |
| 10.45 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 | General introduction to SPSS (lecture) |
| 11.30 | Stratification and linear regression (hands on session) |
| 12.45 | Lunch |
| 13.45 | Prediction and correction for confounding (lecture) |
| 14.30 | Survival analysis I - Kaplan Meier (lecture) |
| 15.30 | Coffee break |
| 15.45 | Survival analysis I - Kaplan Meier (hands on session) |
| 16.30 | Survival analysis II – Cox regression (lecture) |
| 17.30 | Session end |
| Monday 18 September | |
| 8.30 | Survival analysis II – Cox regression (hands on session) |
| 10.00 | Question and answer session |
| 10.30 | Coffee break |
| 11.15 | Evaluation of clinical outcomes in dialysis patients |
| 12.15 | Lunch |
| 13.15 | Mortality comparisons in ESRD patients using propensity score methodology |
| 14.45 | Session end |